Sea Fishing (Marking and Identification of Passive Fishing Gear and Beam Trawls) (England) Order 2006 (S.I. No. 1549 of 2006).

This Order concerns the enforcement of requirements regarding marking and identification of longlines, gillnets, entangling nets, trammel nets, drifting gillnets and any associated anchoring, floating or navigational gear (“passive gear”) imposed by specified Community legislation. The requirements apply to English and Welsh fishing boats wherever they are, except within the territorial sea, and to all other boats in British fishery limits.
The Order defines powers of enforcement of British fishery officers and specifies the requirements regarding the deployment, marking and identification of passive fishing gear, buoys and beam trawls, the contravention of which constitutes an offence.